The Awesome Egyptians (Horrible Histories)

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A tropical fruit is rumoured to be found somewhere high above the streets, perched on a window ledge Today, though, historians are pretty sure they know why. Lice were everywhere in ancient Egypt. The tombs of Egyptian rulers are infested with lice, apparently flooding out from the remains of the bodies. Terry’s latest additions to the Horrible Histories series are the Horrible Histories Special: France and Cruel Crimes and Painful Punishment. And if Horrible Histories wasn’t keeping him busy enough Terry has also contributed a range of titles to the True Stories series including True Mystery Stories and True Horror Stories. Get EVERY episode of Horrible Histories as well as all the extras at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00sp0l8/horrible-histories BBC iPlayer is the home of Horrible Histories.

In early 1998, the Top Ten series was launched with two titles written by Terry, Top Ten Shakespeare Stories and Top Ten Greek Legends. There’s some strange stuff afoot in Beastly Boxset - odd things are appearing without warning where there was nothing before. Can you help us hunt them down?

Horrible Histories has been entertaining children and families for generations with books, TV, stage show, magazines, games and 2019’s brilliantly funny Horrible Histories: the Movie – Rotten Romans.

Get more episode of Horrible Histories as well as all the extras at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b00sp0l8/horrible-histories I do not like reading very much and my Mum is pleased that I have found some books I like so much that I read them without being asked!” King Tut’s mummy was buried with an erection. Nobody knows exactly why, but Tut’s the only Egyptian ruler we’ve found so far who insisted on being mummified with a raging hard-on. This pronged eating instrument can be seen somewhere near some interesting taxidermy and a curious rodent Sing along with this brand new Horrible Histories song Wake Like an Egyptian, a parody of 80s pop classic, Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles!Now we're quite sure there are two unexpected appearances connected to specific places in each era: When a man died in Egypt, he was embalmed right away. Women, though, were a different matter. By law, the beautiful and the powerful weren’t sent to embalmers until they had decayed for three or four days. This was because Egyptians didn’t trust the embalmers to keep their hands to themselves.

The facts and the funny illustrations made the funny and interesting.They tell cool facts about each Pharaoh and Gods that were during ancient Egypt time (BC: Before Christ).Did you know that in their time, to heal a toothache the doctor would split a mouse and put it in the patient's gum while the mouse is fresh and warm.A lot of Pharaoh’s sarcophagus were put into a pyramid and inside that pyramid there would be a maze so burglars would take away the gold that was inside.The Egyptians would put gold and other jewelry for the afterlife.The afterlife is when either you live in Hell or Heaven. Would you add Cleopatra on Facebook? Well, Mark Anthony added her on Mummy-Bo and he's beginning to regret it. The Horrible Histories exhibition is up and running in museums around Britain until 2003. He has also just set up a television production company and is negotiating to make a series of audio tapes and writing radio scripts for BBC World Service.The Egyptians had their own ways of practicing planned parenting. For the time, these were amazing innovations that show the ancient Egyptians had an incredible interest in and understanding of medicine. But that doesn’t mean these methods weren’t horribly disgusting.